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Submitted to Contest #305
At the intersection, I could go right and head home—but turning left would take me back to the cabin. My phone was still there, stuffed under the damp mattress with that skeleton key. The key that Isabelle had asked me to hide if anyone came looking for it. I pulled my eyes away from the road and checked the time displayed on the dashboard. 10:51pm. I could still go back. No one else was on the road at this hour. I hated driving at night. The bumpy road that split away from the highway onto Snowdrop Lane was so remote I could hardly tell ...
Submitted to Contest #253
The first time I noticed Emily was as Ophelia in the school play, Hamlet. The rain outside the school theatre windows had started to suspend into a light drizzle. Cars were pulling out of the parking lot, leaving behind that swoosh sound of tires against tarmac. It was our second production of the play and Emily seemed to appear out of the corner of the stage where the lighting is darkest. The left wing off stage is only ever used by a handful of us stagehands, the stage manager and costumer Mrs Harris. I’d been...
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